Living with a toddler is like watching a rogue country develop weapons of mass destruction. One day, you think your 1-year-old couldn't possibly enrich uranium on his own, and the next he's learned how to pull your iPod out of the nightstand drawer, ...

If your kids always want to play on your iPad or Android tablet, youth educational entertainment company LeapFrog has a new kid-friendly tablet that might be a more suitable alternative for them -- though you'll have to wait until later this summer. ...

Apps have become an important part of many kids' lives. There are educational apps that lend a hand in teaching math and history skills, apps for staying in touch with parents, and apps that just read you a story when no one else is around. But when ...

Two California teenagers gave drugged milkshakes to one of the teen's parents to bypass a 10 p.m. Internet cut-off time, police say. The teens, a 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old friend, volunteered to buy milkshakes for the parents. The Sacramento...

For its latest Kindle Fire tablets, Amazon included a new parental controls called FreeTime, a walled-off section of the tablet where parents can "whitelist" any content on the device as kid-friendly. That feature is getting a big upgrade, offering a...

Along with its new line of Kindle tablets, Amazon unveiled a feature called FreeTime that "reinvents parental controls" at a press event on Thursday. Kindle FreeTime lets parents control what media their children have access to, and for how long they...

Twitter has added a way to flag links within tweets as "possibly sensitive." The company announced late Thursday that there is a new field in the Twitter streaming API that will show up whenever a tweet contains a link, giving Twitter users the optio...

Last month we showed you a preview of the social networking features coming to Xbox LIVE soon, including Twitter, Facebook and last.fm. We've been testing out the new features as part of the special Update Preview program Microsoft made available, an...

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